Do you ever get the tingles... down there... when you're platforming?

[Weegian]

Like many of you, I've been hopping around the Lands Between over the past few weeks -- dashing across rooftops, leaping from one rickety platform to the next, and so on -- and I've noticed that this game makes me feel things in my, uh, nethers when I'm pulling off these feats of acrobatics, gitting gud, and generally being an Elden Lord.

I have reason to believe that the tingles are unrelated to the quality of the game. I mean, just look at this:





I don't have a thing about heights in real life, and my platforming credentials are in order.

Am I going soft in my old age, or is this game just a vertigo machine?

 

[hydrophilic attack]

uh tingles in your what?

 

[NuclearDistortion]

Weekend ERA has really arrived hasn't it?

 

[HardRojo]

Haha yeah lol, happens during tight platforming where falling through a pit could mean retrying a whole level or losing significant progress.

 

[Akainu]

Couldn't wait a day?

 

[Chopchop]

When seeing those gifs, I feel a weaker version of that stomach-floats-up feeling that I get when falling down a roller coaster, but I don't know if I'd call it a tingle.

 

[the magical kitsune]

Okay fine, you got me to click an elden ring thread.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Couldn't wait a day?

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friday is part of the weekend babe

 

[Akainu]

friday is part of the weekend babe

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No.

 

[jwk94]

Platforming makes you horny? Or am I ready this wrong?

 

[Wein Cruz]

Fuck the frenzied flame ending.

 

[DeSolos]

Are you referring to feeling a "sinking feeling in your stomach" similar to that of falling/dropping(like a roller coaster or thrill ride)?


If so yes, though I haven't felt it from Elden Ring, but I would get it all the time from SMTV. SMTV has no fall damage so I'd jump off some insanely high heights at points, and I found depending on how immersed I was, it felt like going down a hill on a roller coaster.

 

[Jims]

When seeing those gifs, I feel a weaker version of that stomach-floats-up feeling that I get when falling down a roller coaster, but I don't know if I'd call it a tingle.

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Yeah, does OP mean the roller coaster feeling? Because I have definitely felt that a little from big Xenoblade jumps. But not, uh... Down there.

 

[ventuno]

Is this a hard mode thread?

 

[DeliciousSunnyD!]

Yeah, the platforming in Elden Ring (and any really tight, intense platforming game really) can make my palms sweat and my butt clench lmfao. It's great! It means I'm really immersed in the game, and I think platformers are often the most immersive games for this reason, at least for me.

The platforming in ER reminded me a ton of the classic Tomb Raider games and how hairy and intense the jumps in those games were. Love it haha.

 

[ManNR]

Clenching
But hole

 

[pswii60]

Only if my wife is feeling handy.

 

[Weegian]

Are you referring to feeling a "sinking feeling in your stomach" similar to that of falling/dropping(like a roller coaster or thrill ride)?

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Yeah, does OP mean the roller coaster feeling? Because I have definitely felt that a little from big Xenoblade jumps. But not, uh... Down there.

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If I had to specify, I'd describe it as a general tightening in the scrotal region.

 

[FrostweaveBandage]

I, too, get tingles in my finger joints and have to take breaks every now and then.

 

[demi]

Tingles in my toes? Calf muscles? Down there?

 

[L Thammy]

I think they make some sort of ointment for this now.

 

[Deleted member 81119]

Is this a hard mode thread?

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Nice

 

[Yuntu]

I get what OP means. It best works if you two-hand it.

 

[Transistor]

No, but I do get that sinking feeling in my stomach with some games when I jump from a great height.

 

[Serpens007]

 

[Type VII]

Plenty of arse clenching on tricky platforming/action/QTE sections here.

 

[awake4ages]

 

[Rygar 8Bit]

Your where? Do you mean your gut? You know like when you get that dropping feeling?

 

[balohna]

Felt it even watching this footage. Totally know what you mean.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

just some classic height-related butt clench

ain't nothin weird about it, it's in our primate dna

 

[bes.gen]

yeah this happens, memories from games such as jedi knight, last guardian etc. where platforming had consequences.
nothing from games like uncharted.

 

[Raysoul]

The correct term is buttclench.

Happens all the time when jumping from a very high place with or without fall damage.

 

[pillowtalk]

Jump straight up, hold run button and land. Keep holding the run button, now every jump at this standing position is a run-jump so it's easier to do without having to move. Any other "tough" jump is actually just slowly walking off the edge and landing safely.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

Jump straight up, hold run button and land. Keep holding the run button, now every jump at this standing position is a run-jump so it's easier to do without having to move. Any other "tough" jump is actually just slowly walking off the edge and landing safely.

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Also aim for whatever wall is behind a surface if you can. Important to stop momentum.

 

[RadzPrower]

Only in VR. Flat screens have never made me motion sick, vertigo, scared of heights, etc.

I'm not even scared of heights in VR. It's literally just the dissonance between what I'm seeing and feeling and my body going "Nope! That ain't right!!!"

 

[Pyccko]

never heard it phrased that way, but no, never gotten vertigo from a video game

 

[Piggus]

A Chuck Tingle fan I see

 

[julia crawford]

yeah, i do, souls is awful with this because you really cannot ever EVER tell if you're going to land safely

 

[panda-zebra]

Am I going soft in my old age, or is this game just a vertigo machine?

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astro posted about this in the ER OT a few weeks back, there were a few replies as I remember. Not many games do this to me these days, but this one did... I actually had to shut my eyes a number of times when dropping down some ledges. Windlands VR was the last game to get me this bad. No idea why now.

 

[Shiz Padoo]

Recently I have started getting a bit queasy when I jump off something high in a game, bu tit's not the height that's doing it. It's the ground geting closer fast that does it. Until I jump I'm OK with being high up.

 

[SpoonyBob]

Only when playing Rez

 

[Spacejaws]

Was rock solid after this.

Spoiler: Late game area spoiler and erotic

 

[Soliloquy of a Dogge]

Must be a gamer thing.

Man, some of ya'll just straight up weird.

 

[yyr]

Only in VR. Flat screens have never made me motion sick, vertigo, scared of heights, etc.

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This is me also. VR is a different beast.

 

[astro]

astro posted about this in the ER OT a few weeks back, there were a few replies as I remember. Not many games do this to me these days, but this one did... I actually had to shut my eyes a number of times when dropping down some ledges. Windlands VR was the last game to get me this bad. No idea why now.

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I think it is a mix of the verticality (which is absolutely fantastic in this game), the purposly awkward platform designs, the strict fall damage, and the way deaths work in this game.

Just a perfect anxiety storm.

 

[NediarPT88]

Not in videogames thankfully. Not sure if it's the same thing you meant, but I feel like my balls are shrinking when I look down from a great height irl (can't really put it in a better way tbh), I simply can't stand heights.

 

[NaDannMaGoGo]

the hell...

are you saying you're getting some kind of crotch ASMR?

 

[AllMight1]

 

[AlmostMilk]

Is your name James May?

 

[Duraigo]

If you're not getting the tingles down there, why bother?

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